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TACK EASTBNED BUTTON. No. 534,351; 1 Patented Feb. 19,1895.

'NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED J. SHIPLEY, OF WATERBURY, CON N EOTIOUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE SCOVILLMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

TACK-FASTENED BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 534,351, dated February19, 1895.

Application filed November 30, 1394. Serial No. 530,391. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED J. SHIPLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inTack-Fastened Buttons, of'which the following is a full, clear, andexact description- This invention relates to that class of buttons inwhich an anvil or clinching die has been employed to receive and turnthe point of a tack or rivet or other fastening, by means of which thebutton has been secured to a garment. Heretofore, the anvil or clinchingdie has been secured within the button head, the latter being made as acomplete structure, independent of the anvil or clinching die, and theanvilor clinching die being thereafter inolosed in, applied to orsecured within or to the button head.

In the present invention, the anvil or clinching die is made a part ofthe button head, the two parts being intimately and fixedly united tocomplete the button.

In practicing my invention, I form a button head with a depressed centeror shank, which is bottomless, or open at the end that comes next thegarment when applied, andI form the anvil of a dome-like top and anexternally embracing base, between which top and base the shank isreceived and spread out laterally so as to clinch the shank between theconstituent members of the anvil or clinching die, and thus intimatelyand fixedly unite the button head and anvil or clinching die. By thisconstruction, I can utilize inferior and waste stock in the manufactureof a very durable and otherwise superior button, at low cost.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention, in the severalfigures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure l is a sideor edge View of the finished button. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of theparts of my button about to be assembled. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectionof the button applied, and Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the parts ofthe anvil or clinching die about to be assembled.

The button head a may be made of usual stock and by ordinary processes,but instead of drawing down the shank or central depression b with itsend next the cloth closed, as usual, I draw down such shank with suchend open, as at c, and trim it or leave it rough, as desired-that is tosay, the shank of itself considered,is bottomless. The anvilorclinchingdie is composed of a dome-like top cl, set

within a cup-shaped base e whose flangefis bent or turned over upon theouter wall of the top, with an intervening space 9, and into this spacethe open end of the shank b is forced, being spread out laterally by thedome-like top, as seen in Fig. 3, and thereafter, the flangef may beturned down upon the spread-out end of the shank, so as to complete anintimate and fixed union between the button head and the anvil orclinching die. The base e is supplied with a hole 72., through which thetack i or other fastening device is introduced into the anvil orclinching die through the cloth or other material j to which the buttonis to be applied, as illustrated in Fig. 3. By this construction, thebutton head and the anvil or clinching die are intimately united in theprocess of finishing both.

Some of the advantages incident to this invention are that the severalparts may be very securely united. The manufacture of the several partsis very considerably facilitated, it being unnecessary to leave anybottom in the button proper, and moreover, the

strength of the button may be concentrated in the hollow anvil andwasher, or, in other words, at the point and in the parts where greateststrength is required.

What I claim is- 1. Atack-fastenedbuttoncomprisingabut' ton head havinga bottomless depressed center or shank, and a clinching die composed ofa dome-like top arranged within the lower end of such shank, and a baseperforated for the passage of the point of the tack into the dome-liketop, and having a flanged rim between which and the said top the shanksedge is embraced, substantially as described.

2. Abutton composed of'a button head having a bottomless shank closed bya two-part anvil or clinching die, the latter having a dome-like topprojecting within the shank and a base flanged around the bottom of suchtop and confining the end of the shank between itself and the dome-liketop, substantially as described.

3. A button comprising a button head, having a bottomless shank, and atwo-part anvil or clinching die comprising a dome-like top arrangedwithin the end of the shank, and an externally applied base, the shankhaving its end flared laterally and secured between and confined by thesaid top and base of the two parts of the anvil or clinching die by thecompression of the base externally about the said end and top,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day ofNovember, A. D. 1894.

ALFRED J. SHIPLEY.

lVitnesses:

T. R. HYDE, J r., F. E. STANLEY.

